Ref ID : 1838

M. De Ridder; Contribution to the knowledge of African rotifers: Rotifers from Mauritania (W.-Africa). Hydrobiologia 150:123-131, 1987

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The number of rotifer taxa known from Mauritania, is raised from 8 to 90.61% of these are cosmopolitan, 1 is temperate - boreal, 18% are themophilic and 20% are tropicopolitan. Most of them are widely distributed in Africa, but some species have limited distributions. The presence of Keratella testudo and Wolga spinifera is remarkable and is probably related to the unusual climatic conditions in the SW Sahara. One phenotype of 'forma' is new to science.